🚀 go-pugleaf

First, let me say that I consider myself a co-founder of net.micro.mac and an
early proponent of moderated groups in general and for Mac-topics in particular,
and that I wish mod.* to succeed, no matter what.

Next let me state that I was the person submitting the FastEddie-2.5 demo,
and that I have a few comments to make regarding the recent announcement
in a posting by the moderator:

> Article 6966 of 7028, Mon 10:50.
> Subject: Status of mod.mac.{binaries,sources}
> From: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long @ FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA)
> (50 lines) More? [ynq]
> As moderator of mod.mac.{binaries,sources}, I wanted to let people know that
> things are finally being posted!  Here is the list of articles posted thus
> far:
>
>	.....
>
> FastEddie's problem was that it was a serial numbered "demo" version.
> What happens is when you buy FastEddie, you get an unrestricted full
> version, and a demo version.  You are encouraged to post or distribute
> your demo version to the world.  Then, when the author gets an order
> that includes the serial number of your demo version, you get a percentage
> of the profits.  Now *that* seems a little too commercial for my tastes,
> so I've rejected FastEddie.


Preceding / Accompanying my submission of the FastEddie files was a message
in which I indicated *HOW I HAD MADE SURE THAT IT WOULD NOT BE OF COMMERCIAL
BENEFIT TO ME*, but rather how everyone on the net could receive the program
at a 33% discount because of being able to refer to me having said so.
I submitted a similar statement to INFO-MAC, so anyone can verify that I said
it there (see a recent mod.mac article of Vol. 4 # 82), and I had posted an
earlier version of FastEddie2 to net.sources.mac with an identical "Usenet
special".

Now several things bother me:

1) whereas Roger acknowledged having received my submission quickly, it took a
	long time before anything was posted.  I do not know what caused that
	delay, but Roger indicated to me that he was first going to download and
	test the stuff to make sure it was working right (great moderating!!)

2) rather than discussing his objections with me first, Roger posted the
	rejection notice (not so great moderating)

3) I responded to Roger immediately, same day, nearly same hour of his posting,
	explaining the situation, but have not heard from him since, despite
	making several attempts to contact him.

whereas I have general good faith in Roger's efforts and intentions and
consider it a possibility that some mail got lost between here and there,
I am totally dissatisfied with my first attempt to post something through the
mod.mac.* arrangement.  I will, therefore, post FastEddie-2.5 to
net.sources.mac and will not attempt to post through mod.mac.* again for a
while and until I see that mechanism running smoothly and in a timely manner.

no hard feelings, but this first attempt has been a wasted effort of time and
good will on my part.  I hope it will work better soon.

	Cheers,		---Werner

PS:  FastEddie is *NOT* shareware (as Roger, erroneously stated) but the demo
	version is labelled *PUBLIC DOMAIN* by the author, whereas the
	purchase-version is protected by Copyright and distribution is
	explicitly disallowed.  I am trying to convince the author to consider
	making it shareware in the future in order to facilitate distribution
	of program, documentation and updates to both.